[PLUG] Refresh keyboard

[John Jason Jordan]

This is ridiculous. The keyboard on my laptop is mostly not working. I
click somewhere to enter text and the cursor appears where I clicked,
but when I type something nothing appears. If I leave it sit, about
fifteen minutes later the text slowly starts to appear, one letter at
a time. This happens everywhere - in browsers, the command line, e-mail
client. (I am typing this on my desktop computer.) If I try to enter
text with Onboard I also get nothing.

I found a suggestion to do Ctrl-Alt-F2, or just Alt-F2, but neither has
any effect, although when I pressed the keys the cursor shimmered
slightly.

I'm assuming that if I reboot things will be back to normal, but I'm
trying to save the half hour it would take to relaunch all my programs
and open all the files to where I was. Rebooting is a PITA.

Any suggestions?